Published: 3 May 2022
ISBN: 9780241545317
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 160
RRP: $22.99

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The Trouble with Happiness

and Other Stories

Tove Ditlevsen

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A shimmering collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated into English for the first time

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventional roles and finding freedom and happiness - without ever truly understanding what that might mean.

Published: 3 May 2022
ISBN: 9780241545317
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages: 160
RRP: $22.99

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About the author

Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.